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Zelizer characterizes the newly elected Gingrich as possessed with ending the Democratic Party's longstanding majority in the House of Representatives that, at the time, was a quarter-century into what would be a 40-year run. By the early 1980s, Gingrich embraced new media and proclaimed himself "'the first leader of the C-SPAN generation'" (p. 196), Rather than the usual 20 or 200 constituents at a campaign event, unfiltered Gingrich could reach a C-SPAN audience of 200,000. In his "Introduction", Zelizer unconditionally posits Gingrich's mediatized campaign to take down Wright as the origin of all current ills: "We can date precisely the moment when our toxic political environment was born: Speaker Wright's downfall in 1989" (2020, p. 11). [Extracted from the article]

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